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The Future of Mozilla After the Shutdown of Mozilla Labs

posted by martyb on Saturday September 20 2014, @01:13PM   Printer-friendly
from the innovate-or-die dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

Ian Bicking has confirmed that Mozilla has quietly shut down Mozilla Labs.

This development raises some interesting questions about the future of Mozilla and their products:

With Firefox's usage declining, with Firefox on Android seeing limited uptake, with Firefox not being available on iOS, with Thunderbird stagnating, with SeaMonkey remaining as irrelevant as ever, with Firefox OS suffering from poor reviews and little adoption, and now with a reduction in innovation due to the closure of Mozilla Labs, does Mozilla have any hope of remaining relevant as time goes on?

Will Mozilla be able to reignite the spark that originally allowed them to create products like Firefox and Thunderbird that were, at one time, wildly popular and innovative?

Is Mozilla still capable of innovating without Mozilla Labs, or will they slowly fade into irrelevance as the last remaining users of their products move on to other offerings from competitors?

 
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  • (Score: 2) by chromas on Saturday September 20 2014, @02:21PM

    by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 20 2014, @02:21PM (#95855) Journal

    There are a few forks of Firefox, like Pale Moon and

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  • (Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 20 2014, @02:28PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 20 2014, @02:28PM (#95857)

    pale moon et all is NOT a fork, its merely a recompile with some extra PGO steps added to make it run a bit better (SSE2 vs non-SSE2).

    • (Score: 2) by chromas on Saturday September 20 2014, @11:10PM

      by chromas (34) Subscriber Badge on Saturday September 20 2014, @11:10PM (#96041) Journal

      Would mod you up if I could. Pale Moon also doesn't have the weird tiled menu and stuff that confuse my little brain.

    • (Score: 2) by KritonK on Monday September 22 2014, @08:51AM

      by KritonK (465) on Monday September 22 2014, @08:51AM (#96662)

      Actually, starting from version 25, which is currently in beta, Pale Moon will be a fork. [palemoon.org]

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by kaszz on Saturday September 20 2014, @03:00PM

    by kaszz (4211) on Saturday September 20 2014, @03:00PM (#95862) Journal

    And?

    Sounds like a "cliffhanger" ;)

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 20 2014, @03:59PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday September 20 2014, @03:59PM (#95882)

      ... and the browser you're not supposed to talk about? ;-)

    • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Sunday September 21 2014, @01:01AM

      by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Sunday September 21 2014, @01:01AM (#96084) Journal
      and Midori... and
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